Default Parameters for UCSStoraLocDiskTest

This test auto- discovers the logical disks of the target Cisco UCS Manager and helps you in continuously monitoring the overall health, operability, and availability of each logical server managed by the Cisco UCS Manager, and be alerted to anomalies as soon as they occur. This way, you can initiate required corrective actions before your mission-critical services begin to suffer. In addition, the test also captures critical power and thermal failures experienced by the logical disks. Besides, this test also helps administrators figure out the size of each logical disk and the number of blocks available on each disk. Using this test, administrators can figure out the disks that are frequently encountering failures.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the UCSStoraLocDiskTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to choose how often should the test be executed.

• Provide the credentials of a user in the UCS USER and UCS PASSWORD text boxes with at least read-only privileges to the target Cisco UCS manager.

• Confirm the password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

• By default, the Cisco UCS Manager is SSL-enabled. Accordingly, the SSL flag is set to Yes by default.

• By default, in most virtualized environments, Cisco UCS Manager listens on port 80 (if not SSL-enabeld) or on port 443 (if SSL-enabled) only. This implies that while monitoring Cisco UCS manager, the eG agent, by default, connects to port 80 or 443, depending upon the SSL-enabled status of Cisco UCS Manager - i.e., if Cisco UCS Manager is not SSL-enabled (i.e., if the SSL flag above is set to No), then the eG agent connects to Cisco UCS Manager using port 80 by default, and if Cisco UCS Manager is SSL-enabled (i.e., if the SSL flag is set to Yes), then the agent-Cisco UCS Manager communication occurs via port 443 by default. Accordingly, the WEB PORT parameter is set to default by default.

  In some environments however, the default ports 80 or 443 might not apply. In such a case, against the WebPort parameter, you can specify the exact port at which the Cisco UCS Manager in your environment listens, so that the eG agent communicates with that port for collecting metrics from the Cisco UCS Manager.

• Once the above values are provided, click on the UPDATE button to register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.